[Igor Antunov]

This is HUGE. Making food and usable carbs from Carbon Dioxide is a game changer.

Chinese scientists recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. Relevant results were published in Science on Sept. 24.

The new route makes it possible to shift the mode of starch production from traditional agricultural planting to industrial manufacturing, and opens up a new technical route for synthesizing complex molecules from CO2.

Starch is the major component of grain as well as an important industrial raw material. At present, it is mainly produced by crops such as maize by fixing CO2 through photosynthesis. This process involves about 60 biochemical reactions as well as complex physiological regulation. The theoretical energy conversion efficiency of this process is only about 2%.

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-chinese-s ... arbon.html

[B0ycey]

Game changer??? I think not. Do you realise we have a CO2 shortage right now?

Just get starch the old fashioned way. This is not a problem. Lack of CO2 is right now... ironically due to food shortages.